Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to ...

I photograph people with the Stars and Stripes and ask them what the flag means to them. Pictured here is retired Marine ...

Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to explore why state seals are significant and how they help us ...

American Revolution provided world of Enlightenment chance to see if philosophy, politics game they had been engaged in could ...

Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first internal tax on the American colonies, and thus began a decade of missteps by the ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...